Surf these sites: Chaffing and Winnowing -- An interesting paper by Ron Rivest about providing confidentiality without encryption. Elliptic curve cryptography FAQ -- Elliptic curves are used in public key cryptography. Foundations of Cryptography -- Oded Goldreich. A public domain book available on-line. Only partially completed. Index of Crypto Papers Online -- by Bruce Schneier at Counterpane systems. Paul Garrett''s Crypto and Number Theory Lecture Notes -- Introduction to cryptology, number-theory, and algorithms. Protocols. Symmetric versus asymmetric systems. Stream, block ciphers. One-way functions, signatures. Key management. (Pseudo-) random number generation. Permutation groups. Primes, Euclidean algorithm. Finite fields. Quadratic reciprocity. Discrete logs, RSA. Pseudoprimes, rho method. Elliptic curve methods.
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